The American Paint Silkie

[Freckle Face Farm]

lovely just lovely

 

[racuda]

On the birds that have faint spotting - Are the spots faint because of too few black feathers, or faint because the spots are gray?

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Faint because there are only a few black feathers in that particular spot. The color is still black. It seems that breeding the paints to black increase the size of the spots.

 

[racuda]

So, it is as if the "holes" in the dominant white are too small, and breeding back to blacks enlarges them. This is fascinating!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Either that or that they have been bred back to each other exclusively over the past few years and because they are predominantly white with black spots, that has minimized the spots.

 

[SilkieCRZYness]

I have a black cockerel from Jerry in lousianna that is an offspring of two paints and is a carrier of the gene. It was suppose to be a girl because I have no more room for boys, so he must go. Anyone interested? Please PM me if so.

 

[brenTx]

Have you test bred this black to see if it does carry the paint gene? Sigrid let me to believe in the Euros that black is not carrying the gene. If the blacks and blues are carriers I have sure given away a lot of pet birds that would be good.

 

[JenEric Farms]

I'd be very interested in finding this out as well.

 

[brenTx]

Test breeding some of these questions is what we need to work together to get the answers. I have only kept whites and paints and bred back to blacks.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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Thats odd, because I got the same color pattern when I crossed one of my EE hens to a silkie - except mine is named Dotty.

I haven't been able to recreate her pattern yet, but I haven't gotten that serious about it - maybe I will now, but her offspring may lay blue eggs. Hmmmm....